Blacksmithing is the oldest craft associated with metal processing. Many museums have stone blacksmith tools of those distant times in their funds: small hammer stones and massive anvil slabs. On the territory of our country, forging was used already in the 7th century. BC e. in the areas of the Black Sea region, the North Caucasus, the Southern Urals. The blacksmiths of Scythia already possessed the secrets of blacksmith welding. In the IX-XII centuries. in Russia during the construction of monasteries, churches and cathedrals in Kyiv, Novgorod. Pskov widely uses the work of blacksmiths, who forge powerful ties - cords and belts for fastening walls, arches, arches, as well as window grilles, front doors and gates with false flowers, engraved zhikovins and twisted knobs, collect and install large and small crosses on the tops of the domes.